Improvement in instruments for removing corns



J. C. JACOBSOHN.

. Improvement in Instrument for Removing Corns.

,,132,4 3, Patentd 00;. 22,1312.

M 21566868 2 tenfor.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIOE.

JOHN C. JAOOBSOHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

lM PROVEMENT IN INSTRUMENTS FOR REMOVING CORNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,468, dated October22, 1872.

ing a handle and blade, and the blade being coated by a sharp, grittymaterial, as hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents that portion of the instrumentwhich serves as a handle, and B that portion which consti tutes theblade. The blade portion B I coat with a covering of pulverized quartz,crystal, or other equivalent substance which will produce a sharp, hardgrit, by means -of glue or other equivalent adhesive material ormixture, and then apply an" outer 00% of alcohol and shellac or otherequivalent substance that will make the surface water-proof and preventthe gritty particles from being easily rubbed off without materialdetriment to the rasping property of said gritty coating.

The blade or rasping portion-of the instrument may be made in any formbest suited to operating upon corns and other callosities. One side maybe made convex and the other flat, or the form may be otherwise varied.

By rubbing with this instrument corns and other similar callosities maybe removed expeditiously without pain or the slightest danger of injury.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- An instrument for removing corns and oth- I or similar callositiesof the cuticle, having a blade coated with a grittymateriahsubstantially as herein described.

JOHN C. JAOOBSOHN. Witnesses:

J. J. OOOMBS, J 0s. L. OooMBs.

